EP4024083A1 - Procédé de transmission et procédé de réception de signal de mesure de vitesse - Google Patents

Procédé de transmission et procédé de réception de signal de mesure de vitesse Download PDF

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EP4024083A1
EP4024083A1 EP19946829.9A EP19946829A EP4024083A1 EP 4024083 A1 EP4024083 A1 EP 4024083A1 EP 19946829 A EP19946829 A EP 19946829A EP 4024083 A1 EP4024083 A1 EP 4024083A1
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  • This application relates to velocity measurement technologies, and in particular, to a velocity measurement signal transmission method and receiving method.
  • Velocity measurement includes measuring moving velocities of targets such as a pedestrian, an animal, a motor vehicle, a non-motor vehicle, a train, and an aircraft, and is an important research field of intelligent driving.
  • a sensor such as a millimeter wave radar or a laser radar
  • the velocity measurement mainly uses the Doppler effect principle: When the target approaches the sensor, a reflected signal frequency is higher than a transmit frequency. Conversely, when the target moves away from the sensor, a reflected signal frequency is lower than a transmit frequency. In this way, a relative velocity between the target and the sensor can be calculated by using a change value of the frequency.
  • a chirp (Chirp) signal is a common velocity measurement signal, and its frequency changes with time.
  • the change may be a frequency increase or a frequency decrease, and may be a linear change, or may be a non-linear change. If such a signal is converted into audio, it sounds like chirps of a bird, and therefore, the signal is called a chirp signal.
  • a plurality of consecutive chirp signals in a form of the frequency modulated continuous waveform shown in FIG. 1 are used as an example to describe a velocity measurement principle.
  • f 0 r 0 c is a constant term
  • ⁇ tn T T c v c is a cross term and may also be omitted.
  • this part is discrete sampling performed on a sinusoidal signal with a frequency f d by using a sampling cycle as the frequency sweep cycle T c .
  • T e the sampling cycle
  • a time division multiplexing (Time-division multiplexing, TDM) mode has advantages such as simple hardware implementation and low mutual coupling effect, and is an important research direction for the radar.
  • the foregoing velocity measurement method may be based on a SIMO (Single-Input Multiple-Output, single-input multiple-output) mode or a MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, multiple-input multiple-output) mode. From Formula 9, the following can be learned.
  • the sampling cycle T c is a single frequency sweep cycle, and a velocity estimation range is the largest.
  • an additional virtual array aperture cannot be obtained, and consequently, angular resolution is reduced.
  • a solution that can be easily implemented is urgently needed to increase a maximum velocity measurement range and minimize entire velocity measurement signal duration while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained.
  • embodiments of the present invention provide a velocity measurement signal transmission method and receiving method.
  • a velocity measurement signal transmission method including: generating a plurality of chirp signals for measuring moving velocities of one or more moving targets; and transmitting the plurality of chirp signals in a time division multiplexing repetition cycle by using M antennas.
  • the time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles.
  • the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles, and N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by one of the M antennas, or are simultaneously transmitted by at least two of the M antennas, where there is a delay between the at least two antennas.
  • Each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles, and M chirp signals in the M frequency sweep cycles are respectively transmitted in order by the M antennas.
  • M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and L is a positive integer.
  • the delay between the at least two antennas is a relatively low delay, is preferably an integer multiple of a fast sampling cycle Ts, and is used to offset a signal transmission path length difference caused by an antenna position difference, so that simultaneously transmitting velocity measurement signals by the at least two antennas can be considered, in terms of effect, as transmitting the velocity measurement signals by one antenna.
  • This avoids an FOV (Field of View, field of view) decrease caused by an undesired BF (Beamforming, beamforming) effect, and greatly increases an SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio, signal to noise ratio).
  • the order includes a preset order or a randomly generated order, and orders in the L multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles are the same. According to the foregoing transmission method in which SIMO and MIMO are combined, a maximum velocity measurement range can be increased and entire velocity measurement signal duration can be minimized while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained.
  • a ratio of N to L is greater than a first threshold.
  • values of L, M, and N should ensure that a ratio of a quantity of 0s to a quantity of non-0 values in a weight function w does not exceed a second threshold
  • the weight function w c ⁇ c -
  • c is a vector that includes N + L ⁇ M elements
  • c - represents vector inversion of c
  • ⁇ represents a linear convolution operation of the vector
  • the N + L ⁇ M elements correspond to transmit antennas of N + L ⁇ M chirp signals in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle starting from the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle or the L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles
  • an element corresponding to a transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is 1, and elements corresponding to the other M-1 antennas than the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle are 0s.
  • a time interval between the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is zero, or is an integer multiple of the frequency sweep cycle.
  • a velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus including: a measurement signal generation module, configured to generate a plurality of chirp signals for measuring moving velocities of one or more moving targets; and a transmission module, configured to transmit the plurality of chirp signals in a time division multiplexing repetition cycle by using M antennas.
  • the time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles.
  • the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles of the chirp signals, and chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by one of the M antennas, or are simultaneously transmitted by at least two of the M antennas, where there is a delay between the at least two antennas.
  • Each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles of the chirp signals, and chirp signals in the M frequency sweep cycles are respectively transmitted in order by the M antennas.
  • M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and L is a positive integer.
  • the delay between the at least two antennas is a relatively low delay, is preferably an integer multiple of a fast sampling cycle Ts, and is used to offset a signal transmission path length difference caused by an antenna position difference, so that simultaneously transmitting velocity measurement signals by the at least two antennas can be considered, in terms of effect, as transmitting the velocity measurement signals by one antenna.
  • This avoids an FOV (Field of View, field of view) decrease caused by an undesired BF (Beamforming, beamforming) effect, and greatly increases an SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio, signal to noise ratio).
  • the order includes a preset order or a randomly generated order, and orders in the L multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles are the same. According to the foregoing transmission apparatus in which SIMO and MIMO are combined, a maximum velocity measurement range can be increased and entire velocity measurement signal duration can be minimized while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained.
  • a ratio of N to L is greater than a first threshold.
  • values of L, M, and N should ensure that a ratio of a quantity of 0s to a quantity of non-0 values in a weight function w does not exceed a second threshold
  • the weight function w c ⁇ c -
  • c is a vector that includes N + L ⁇ M elements
  • c - represents vector inversion of c
  • ⁇ represents a linear convolution operation of the vector
  • the N + L ⁇ M elements correspond to transmit antennas of N + L ⁇ M chirp signals in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle starting from the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle or the L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles
  • an element corresponding to a transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is 1, and elements corresponding to the other M-1 antennas than the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle are 0s.
  • a time interval between the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is zero, or is an integer multiple of the frequency sweep cycle of the chirp signals.
  • a velocity measurement signal receiving method including: receiving, by using a plurality of antennas, received signals reflected by one or more moving targets, where the received signals include chirp signals in one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles, each time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles, each single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles, each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles, and N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles and a chirp signal in the K th frequency sweep cycle in the M frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by a same antenna, where L, M, N, and K are all positive integers, and both M and N are greater than 1; for a received signal received by each of the plurality of antennas, sampling a chirp signal in one of the one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles by using the frequency sweep cycle as a sampling cycle, to obtain data
  • the calculating a velocity spectrum about moving velocities of the targets based on the vector r includes: calculating the velocity spectrum about the moving velocities of the one or more targets based on the vector r by using a fast Fourier transform (FFT), digital beamforming (DBF), or multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm.
  • FFT fast Fourier transform
  • DBF digital beamforming
  • MUSIC multiple signal classification
  • the forming a vector r by using the plurality of elements includes: if at least two of the plurality of elements correspond to a same exponential coefficient, calculating an average value of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r, or selecting one of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r.
  • a velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus including: a receiving module, configured to receive, by using a plurality of antennas, a received signal reflected by one or more moving targets, where the received signal includes a chirp signal in one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles, each time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles, each single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles, each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles, and N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles and a chirp signal in the K th frequency sweep cycle in the M frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by a same antenna, where L, M, N, and K are all positive integers, and both M and N are greater than 1; a data obtaining module, configured to: for a received signal received by each of the plurality of antennas, sample a chirp signal in one of the one or more time division
  • the calculating a velocity spectrum about moving velocities of the targets based on the vector r includes: calculating the velocity spectrum about the moving velocities of the one or more targets based on the vector r by using a fast Fourier transform (FFT), digital beamforming (DBF), or multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm.
  • FFT fast Fourier transform
  • DBF digital beamforming
  • MUSIC multiple signal classification
  • the forming a vector r by using the plurality of elements includes: if at least two of the plurality of elements correspond to a same exponential coefficient, calculating an average value of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r, or selecting one of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r.
  • a velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus including a memory and a processor.
  • the memory stores computer program instructions, and the processor runs the computer program instructions to perform the velocity measurement signal transmission method in any one of the first aspect or the implementations of the first aspect.
  • a velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus including a memory and a processor.
  • the memory stores computer program instructions, and the processor runs the computer program instructions to perform the velocity measurement signal receiving method in any one of the third aspect or the implementations of the third aspect.
  • a computer storage medium including computer instructions.
  • a transmission apparatus is enabled to perform the velocity measurement signal transmission method in any one of the first aspect or the implementations of the first aspect.
  • a computer storage medium including computer instructions.
  • a receiving apparatus is enabled to perform the velocity measurement signal receiving method in any one of the third aspect or the implementations of the third aspect.
  • a computer program product When the computer program product runs on a processor, a transmission apparatus is enabled to perform the velocity measurement signal transmission method in any one of the first aspect or the implementations of the first aspect.
  • a computer program product is provided.
  • a receiving apparatus is enabled to perform the velocity measurement signal receiving method in any one of the third aspect or the implementations of the third aspect.
  • a vehicle including the M antennas and the transmission apparatus in any one of the second aspect and the implementations of the second aspect or the fifth aspect.
  • a vehicle including the plurality of antennas and the receiving apparatus in any one of the fourth aspect and the implementations of the fourth aspect or the sixth aspect.
  • a radar including the M antennas and the transmission apparatus in any one of the second aspect and the implementations of the second aspect or the fifth aspect.
  • a radar including the plurality of antennas and the receiving apparatus in any one of the fourth aspect and the implementations of the fourth aspect or the sixth aspect.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a typical application scenario of velocity measurement according to embodiments of the present invention.
  • a velocity measurement scenario of outdoor road traffic is shown in the figure.
  • a velocity measurement device transmits velocity measurement signals to one or more moving targets, for example, a vehicle traveling on a road or a walking pedestrian.
  • the one or more moving targets reflect the velocity measurement signals.
  • Digital signal processing is performed, based on a Doppler effect principle, on velocity measurement signals reflected back to the velocity measurement device, to obtain moving velocities of the one or more moving targets.
  • the embodiments of the present invention may be further used for indoor obstacle avoidance, rail traffic, air flight, and road traffic scenarios in a plurality of road forms.
  • the moving target includes but is not limited to a pedestrian, an animal, a motor vehicle, a non-motor vehicle, a train, a subway, or an aircraft.
  • Embodiment 1 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal transmission method. As shown in FIG. 3 , the method includes the following steps.
  • Step 301 Generate a plurality of chirp signals for measuring moving velocities of one or more moving targets.
  • Step 302 Transmit the plurality of chirp signals in a time division multiplexing repetition cycle by using M antennas.
  • each time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles (each time division multiplexing repetition cycle may start from one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle, as shown in FIG. 4 , or may start from L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles).
  • the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles, and N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by one of the M antennas (the chirp signals transmitted by the antenna is filled with gray in FIG. 4 ).
  • the transmit antenna used in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle also needs to be used for sending at least once in each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle.
  • Each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles, M chirp signals in the M frequency sweep cycles are respectively transmitted in order by the M antennas, the order includes a preset order or a randomly generated order, and orders of the L multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles are the same.
  • the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle always transmits the (K+1) th chirp signal in the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle.
  • M and N are integers greater than 1
  • L is a positive integer
  • K is an integer greater than or equal to 0.
  • Embodiment 1 includes the following several preferred setting manners.
  • a ratio of N to L is greater than a first threshold.
  • a value of the first threshold should ensure that no obvious target ambiguity caused due to undersampling of a slow sampling part in a Doppler dimension occurs in a target part of a Doppler profile (Doppler Profile).
  • values of L, M, and N should ensure that a ratio of a quantity of 0s to a quantity of non-0 values in a weight function w does not exceed a second threshold
  • the weight function w c ⁇ c -
  • c is a vector that includes N + L ⁇ M elements
  • c - represents vector inversion of c
  • ⁇ represents a linear convolution operation of the vector
  • the N + L ⁇ M elements correspond to transmit antennas of N + L ⁇ M chirp signals in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle
  • an element corresponding to a transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is 1, and elements corresponding to the other M-1 antennas than the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle are 0s.
  • a time interval between the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is zero, or is an integer multiple of the frequency sweep cycle.
  • Embodiment 2 of the present invention provides another velocity measurement signal transmission method. Steps included in the method are also shown in FIG. 3 .
  • a difference between Embodiment 2 and Embodiment 1 is that the N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle are simultaneously transmitted by at least two of the M antennas in Embodiment 2.
  • FIG. 5 is an example diagram in which M antennas transmit a plurality of chirp signals in a time division multiplexing repetition cycle in Embodiment 2. In a single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle, four antennas simultaneously send four chirp signals. In each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle, the M antennas sequentially transmit M chirp signals, and a frequency sweep cycle of the chirp signals is T c .
  • FIG. 6 shows low delays between the four antennas simultaneously transmitting the four chirp signals in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle in FIG. 5 .
  • the four antennas are respectively marked as T0, T1, T2, and T3, and delays of the antennas T1, T2, and T3 are respectively ⁇ 1, ⁇ 2, and ⁇ 3 relative to the reference antenna T0.
  • a value of ⁇ is an integer multiple of a fast sampling interval Ts.
  • a maximum velocity measurement range can be increased and entire velocity measurement signal duration can be minimized while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained.
  • Embodiment 3 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal receiving method. As shown in FIG. 7 , the method includes the following steps.
  • Step 701 Receive, by using a plurality of antennas, received signals reflected by one or more moving targets, where the received signals include chirp signals in one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles, each time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles, each single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles, each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles, and N chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles and a chirp signal in the K th frequency sweep cycle in the M frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by a same antenna, where L, M, N, and K are all positive integers, and both M and N are greater than 1.
  • Step 702 For a received signal received by each of the plurality of antennas, sample a chirp signal in one of the one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles by using the frequency sweep cycle as a sampling cycle, to obtain data corresponding to N+L sampling points, where the N+L sampling points are respectively in the N frequency sweep cycles in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the K th frequency sweep cycle in each of the L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles.
  • a specific data sampling manner may be shown in FIG. 8 .
  • a chirp signal is sampled in a fast sampling cycle T s in a fast time direction ⁇ , and there are N s sampling points.
  • a slow time direction ⁇ all chirp signals transmitted by a transmit antenna in a single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle including one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and a plurality of consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles are sequentially arranged.
  • a sampling cycle in the slow time direction is the frequency sweep cycle T c .
  • Sampling signals on all receive antennas are sequentially arranged in a receive antenna arrangement direction ⁇ , and the receive antennas may be sequentially arranged based on an antenna sequence or randomly arranged.
  • performing sampling at a two-dimensional sampling point with a gray grid pattern is equivalent to "for a received signal received by each of the plurality of antennas, sampling a chirp signal in one of the one or more time division multiplexing repetition cycles by using the frequency sweep cycle as a sampling cycle, to obtain data corresponding to N+L sampling points, where the N+L sampling points are respectively in the N frequency sweep cycles in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the K th frequency sweep cycle in each of the L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles".
  • One time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes two multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles and one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle.
  • Four transmit antennas are used to sequentially send four chirp signals in each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle, and the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes four chirp signals, which are located at the end of the entire time division multiplexing repetition cycle. It can be learned that six chirp signals are transmitted in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle by a transmit antenna in a single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle.
  • step 702 data of six sampling points can be obtained for measurement signals received by each antenna that are shown in FIG. 10 .
  • a digit before the frequency sweep cycle Tc in Formula 10 is an exponential coefficient, and exponential coefficients of the phase vectors are [0, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10].
  • Step 703 Construct a target vector by using the data corresponding to the N+L sampling points corresponding to each of the plurality of antennas.
  • Step 704 Construct a target matrix X by using a plurality of target vectors of the plurality of antennas.
  • Step 705 Calculate a covariance matrix R of the target matrix X.
  • Step 706 Sequentially extract a plurality of elements in the matrix R in an order of exponential coefficients of the plurality of elements, and form a vector r by using the plurality of elements. If at least two of the plurality of elements correspond to a same exponential coefficient, an average value of the at least two elements is calculated as an element for forming the vector r. Alternatively, one of the at least two elements is selected as an element for forming the vector r.
  • 21 elements are selected from the elements whose exponential coefficients range from - 10 to 10 in the matrix R, and are arranged in ascending order or descending order to form a vector r whose length is 21.
  • an element corresponding to the exponential coefficient 4 in the vector r may be either of the element (2, 1) and the element (4, 2), or may be an average value of the element (2, 1) and the element (4, 2).
  • Step 707 Calculate a velocity spectrum about moving velocities of the one or more targets based on the vector r.
  • the velocity spectrum about the moving velocities of the one or more targets may be calculated by using a fast Fourier transform (Fast Fourier Transform, FFT), digital beamforming (Digital Beam Forming, DBF), or multiple signal classification (Multiple Signal Classification, MUSIC) algorithm.
  • FFT Fast Fourier Transform
  • DBF Digital Beam Forming
  • MUSIC Multiple Signal Classification
  • a maximum velocity measurement range can be increased and entire velocity measurement signal duration can be minimized while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained.
  • a maximum velocity estimation range obtained in this embodiment is the same as that in the SIMO mode, that is, a maximum velocity measurement range competitive to the SIMO mode is achieved.
  • a length requirement on the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is low, and duration of the time division multiplexing repetition cycle is relatively short.
  • FIG. 11 is a simulation effect diagram of the velocity spectrum obtained based on the velocity measurement signal receiving method provided in Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
  • a horizontal axis represents a moving velocity
  • a vertical axis represents a velocity spectrum at a corresponding moving velocity. It can be learned that two spectral line peaks appear at two velocities: -10 m/s and 2 m/s. This indicates that there are two moving targets whose moving velocities are respectively -10 m/s and 2 m/s.
  • the velocity measurement signal receiving method described in Embodiment 3 of the present invention may further be combined with distance measurement to obtain an RD-map that reflects both a velocity and a distance of a moving target.
  • An operation method is as follows:
  • step 702 in Embodiment 3 fast sampling is first performed in the fast sampling cycle T s in the fast time direction ⁇ shown in FIG. 8 , to obtain N s fast sampling points, and time domain to frequency domain conversion such as FFT is performed on the N s fast sampling points, to obtain N s pieces of fast sampling frequency domain data.
  • data in the fast time direction ⁇ in FIG. 8 is successively the N s pieces of fast sampling frequency domain data.
  • the data corresponding to the N+L sampling points in step 702 is fast sampling frequency domain data corresponding to the N+L sampling points.
  • N+L slow sampling points are sequentially set to select the first to the N s th of the N s pieces of fast sampling frequency domain data.
  • step 703 to step 707 are sequentially performed N s times, to obtain a velocity spectrum corresponding to each of the N s pieces of fast sampling frequency domain data.
  • a bright color part represents one or more measured moving targets
  • a horizontal axis is a Range axis and is used to indicate the distances of the one or more moving targets
  • a vertical axis is a Doppler axis and is used to indicate the moving velocities of the one or more moving targets. It should be noted that the RD-map can be obtained in this manner only when the velocity measurement signal is a chirp signal whose frequency changes linearly with time.
  • Embodiment 4 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus.
  • the transmission apparatus 13 in FIG. 13 includes the following modules:
  • the time division multiplexing repetition cycle includes one single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and L consecutive multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles.
  • the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes N frequency sweep cycles of the chirp signals, and chirp signals in the N frequency sweep cycles are transmitted by one of the M antennas, or are simultaneously transmitted by at least two of the M antennas, where there is a delay between the at least two antennas.
  • Each multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle includes M frequency sweep cycles of the chirp signals, and chirp signals in the M frequency sweep cycles are respectively transmitted in order by the M antennas.
  • the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle always transmits the (K+1) th chirp signal in the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle.
  • M and N are integers greater than 1
  • L is a positive integer
  • K is an integer greater than or equal to 0.
  • the delay between the at least two antennas is a relatively low delay, is preferably an integer multiple of a fast sampling cycle Ts, and is used to offset a signal transmission path length difference caused by an antenna position difference, so that simultaneously transmitting velocity measurement signals by the at least two antennas can be considered, in terms of effect, as transmitting the velocity measurement signals by one antenna.
  • the order includes a preset order or a randomly generated order, and orders in the L multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycles are the same.
  • Embodiment 4 includes the following several preferred setting manners.
  • a ratio of N to L is greater than a first threshold.
  • a value of the first threshold should ensure that no obvious target ambiguity caused due to undersampling of a slow sampling part in a Doppler dimension occurs in a target part of a Doppler profile (Doppler Profile).
  • values of L, M, and N should ensure that a ratio of a quantity of 0s to a quantity of non-0 values in a weight function w does not exceed a second threshold
  • the weight function w c ⁇ c -
  • c is a vector that includes N + L ⁇ M elements
  • c - represents vector inversion of c
  • ⁇ represents a linear convolution operation of the vector
  • the N + L ⁇ M elements correspond to transmit antennas of N + L ⁇ M chirp signals in one time division multiplexing repetition cycle
  • an element corresponding to a transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is 1, and elements corresponding to the other M-1 antennas than the transmit antenna in the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle are 0s.
  • a time interval between the single-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle and the multi-antenna transmit mode sub-cycle is zero, or is an integer multiple of the frequency sweep cycle.
  • a maximum velocity measurement range can be increased and entire velocity measurement signal duration can be minimized while a relatively large virtual aperture is retained in Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
  • the velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus provided in Embodiment 4 of the present invention may be used in a vehicle or a radar.
  • the vehicle or the radar further includes a plurality of transmit antennas 1303.
  • the transmission module 1302 in the transmission apparatus 13 transmits the plurality of chirp signals in the time division multiplexing repetition cycle by using the plurality of transmit antennas 1303.
  • the radar includes but is not limited to a millimeter wave radar, a laser radar, and an ultrasonic radar.
  • Embodiment 5 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus.
  • the transmission apparatus 14 in FIG. 14 includes a memory 1401 and a processor 1402.
  • the memory 1401 stores computer program instructions
  • the processor 1402 runs the computer program instructions to perform the velocity measurement signal transmission method described in Embodiment 1 or Embodiment 2 shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the processor 1402 includes but is not limited to various types of CPUs, DSPs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or artificial intelligence processors.
  • the velocity measurement signal transmission apparatus provided in Embodiment 5 of the present invention may be used in a vehicle or a radar.
  • the vehicle or the radar further includes a plurality of transmit antennas 1403, configured to transmit, in a time division multiplexing repetition cycle, a plurality of chirp signals fed from the transmission apparatus 14.
  • the radar includes but is not limited to a millimeter wave radar, a laser radar, and an ultrasonic radar.
  • Embodiment 6 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus.
  • the receiving apparatus 15 in FIG. 15 includes the following modules:
  • the calculating a velocity spectrum about moving velocities of the targets based on the vector r includes: calculating the velocity spectrum about the moving velocities of the one or more targets based on the vector r by using a fast Fourier transform (FFT), digital beamforming (DBF), or multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm.
  • FFT fast Fourier transform
  • DBF digital beamforming
  • MUSIC multiple signal classification
  • the forming a vector r by using the plurality of elements includes: if at least two of the plurality of elements correspond to a same exponential coefficient, calculating an average value of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r, or selecting one of the at least two elements as an element for forming the vector r.
  • the velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus provided in Embodiment 6 of the present invention may be used in a vehicle or a radar.
  • the vehicle or the radar further includes a plurality of receive antennas 1508, and the receiving module 1501 in the receiving apparatus 15 receives, by using the plurality of receive antennas 1508, the received signal reflected by the one or more moving targets.
  • the radar includes but is not limited to a millimeter wave radar, a laser radar, and an ultrasonic radar.
  • One or more of the modules in the foregoing Embodiment 4 and Embodiment 6 may be implemented by software, hardware, firmware, or a combination thereof.
  • the software or firmware includes but is not limited to computer program instructions or code, and may be executed by a hardware processor.
  • the hardware includes but is not limited to various integrated circuits, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processor (DSP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
  • CPU central processing unit
  • DSP digital
  • Embodiment 7 of the present invention provides a velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus.
  • the receiving apparatus 16 in FIG. 16 includes a memory 1601 and a processor 1602.
  • the memory 1601 stores computer program instructions
  • the processor 1602 runs the computer program instructions to perform the velocity measurement signal receiving method described in Embodiment 3 shown in FIG. 7 .
  • the processor 1602 includes but is not limited to various types of CPUs, DSPs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or artificial intelligence processors.
  • the velocity measurement signal receiving apparatus may be used in a vehicle or a radar.
  • the vehicle or the radar further includes a plurality of receive antennas 1603, configured to receive a received signal reflected by one or more moving targets, and provide the received signal for the receiving apparatus 16.
  • the radar includes but is not limited to a millimeter wave radar, a laser radar, and an ultrasonic radar.
  • All the foregoing embodiments of the present invention may be applied to an intelligent driving tool with a velocity measurement requirement, such as a motor vehicle, a non-motor vehicle, a train, or an aircraft, or may be applied to a device with a velocity measurement function, such as a radar or a sensor.
  • Application scenarios include but are not limited to assisted driving and unmanned driving.
  • the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium.
  • the foregoing storage medium includes various media that can store program code, such as a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
  • All or some of the foregoing embodiments may be implemented through software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof.
  • the embodiments may be implemented completely or partially in a form of a computer program product.
  • the computer program product includes one or more computer instructions.
  • the computer program instructions When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, the procedures or functions according to the embodiments of the present invention are all or partially generated.
  • the computer may be a general-purpose computer, a dedicated computer, a computer network, or another programmable apparatus.
  • the computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or may be transmitted from a computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium.
  • the computer instructions may be transmitted from a website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center in a wired (for example, a coaxial cable, an optical fiber, or a digital subscriber line (DSL)) or wireless (for example, infrared, radio, or microwave) manner.
  • the computer-readable storage medium may be any usable medium accessible by a computer, or a data storage device, for example, a server or a data center, integrating one or more usable media.
  • the usable medium may be a magnetic medium (for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a magnetic tape), an optical medium (for example, a DVD), a semiconductor medium (for example, a solid-state drive (Solid State Disk, SSD)), or the like.
  • a magnetic medium for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a magnetic tape
  • an optical medium for example, a DVD
  • a semiconductor medium for example, a solid-state drive (Solid State Disk, SSD)

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